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Reinventing the TV Experience. Together

Join Cisco at NAB 2011, April 9 -14 in Las Vegas, and see how Cisco is setting media free from the traditional boundaries of time, place, and platform. With Cisco Videoscape, you can bring your content to viewers anytime, anywhere, over any screen. It provides a new cloud-based platform for you to deliver the next generation of TV entertainment with your service provider partners.

Cisco Videoscape offloads the burden of formatting your content for a seemingly endless array of consumer devices and screens, and preserves your existing business and advertising models. You can deliver your content with uncompromising quality and full protection, and profit from it in amazing new ways.

Additionally, the recent acquisition of Inlet Technologies will help enable Cisco to strengthen the media streaming capabilities of Cisco Videoscape and deliver superior video experiences.

Visit Cisco Booth SU2617 in South Upper Hall, and the Inlet Technologies (now a Cisco company) Booth #SL9610 to find out how to bring new levels of interactivity, personalization, and profitability to your content.Learn More

Live Broadcast with singer-song writer Jewel

Join us on April 13th, 2011 for a live broadcast of a special TelePresence event with multi-platinum singer-song writer Jewel, in an acoustic performance. Learn More

Register for a free exhibits-only guest pass for NAB 2011, compliments of Cisco.

To reserve your free exhibits-only pass, enter the code found on the PDF below when registering for NAB.

Cisco Booth Demonstrations

Visit Cisco Booth #SU2617 in the South Upper Hall to see the following solution demonstrations.

Videoscape Experience
Cisco Videoscape is a new cloud-centric video and services platform that helps service providers to deliver the next generation of TV entertainment.

Our Videoscape demonstration at NAB will show how content can be delivered free from the traditional bounds of time, place, and platform, bringing it to viewers anytime, anywhere, over any screen. It does so while guaranteeing the quality of experience consumers expect, delivered with full protection, and opening new opportunities for enhancing profits.

Videoscape Media Suite: These offer content and brand management solutions for platform-specific publishing. The suite provides the rules and policies by which content is made available for use and consumption.

Videoscape Clients: Consumer experiences are displayed on set top box, gateway, and software-based clients for the "TV Everywhere" deployment model.

Open Platform: Using industry standard interfaces, Cisco will demonstrate how third-party media applications including Signiant and Civolution, along with Isilon storage, can operate within the platform in a virtualized and optimized state.

Unified Computing System Certified: This program highlights the certification of industry-leading media applications and storage solutions for the Unified Computing System platform.

Cisco TelePresence for Broadcasters
Come see how Cisco TelePresence EX90 is transforming the way broadcasters gather news and create content. With this solution any desk can become a personal telepresence and collaboration space. Cisco TelePresence EX90:

Reduces time to market (on-air)

Allows talent and guests to be reached more easily, bringing the studio to talent

Description: The days when children could complain that there is "nothing on TV" are just about over. Smart TVs, sporting interconnection with IP-based consumer devices, are blowing up the boundaries of the walled garden and transforming the media consumption experience. What is possible now, what is coming down the pike – and how will content owners and content distributors adapt?

Additional Sessions Include:

Description: You may have heard of adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming. Now it's time to understand why you need to develop your own ABR strategy. Hear from John Bishop, co-founder and senior vice presidethnt of products and business development at Inlet Technologies, now part of Cisco. Inlet has supported adaptive streaming in its products for more than two years, and was instrumental in developing the specifications for this game-changing technology. John will walk you through the history of ABR, and explain how it can help you can reach every screen with high quality video. You will also learn about the different ABR formats, as well as best practices for ABR implementation.
Case Study: Telepresence in Government – Behind the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Telepresence RolloutDate/Time: Tuesday, April 12th, 3 - 3:45 p.m.
This session will be presented by AT&T.Learn More

Meet with Cisco

Cisco executives and subject matter experts will be available to meet with you one-on-one at NAB. Contact your Cisco account manager to schedule your private meeting.

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Live Broadcast with Singer and Songwriter Jewel

Thanks to everyone who watched Jewel live online from the Cisco San Jose campus studios, one of the 12 remote Telepresence sites, or from their mobile devices. It's obvious how much she is adored by the commentary of her fans.